Dire Means

Can fear breed love?

An Authors Collection Novel

A ruthless vigilante transforms a coveted beach-side city ending homelessness in a matter of days. The ambitious mission isn’t accomplished by any brilliant appeal to public benevolence or by relocating the homeless. An ingenious method uses carefully-targeted fear to cure public apathy toward the most helpless among us.

Dire Means weaves a tale of a city under siege, its citizens forced to flaunt the Golden Rule as the only way to survive. Mark Denny, a computer technician, is lured and then trapped in the killer’s scheme to maintain the public’s fear-fueled generosity. Matching technological wits is the only way Mark can end the city’s terror and save his own life.